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In the first half of this episode, unperson traces Sheffield's experimental music from the DIY post-punk scene of the 1980s, through the pirate radio days of the 1990s, to the city's contemporary boundary pushers. In his words: "lots of bleeps, lots of bass".

In the second half, Elif Gülin Soğuksu weaves a path through the hum of Istanbul, a mix which she describes as "a glimpse into the sound world of stray dogs howling to the morning prayer in rural areas, street musicians playing traditional instruments, street vendors selling simit, fish, meat, and fruits in Beyoğlu ... Turkish classical music playing in the silversmith shop in Sultanahmet ... the micro sounds of rocks, dirt, and bushes near the historic Orthodox Orphanage in Princes' Island".

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

Hedonist and wannabe playwright Olga Adessi, 19, is struggling along the prom to get to her morning shift at the chippy with a monstrous hangover, trying to remember exactly what happened with Rachel Watkins, 19, a strange and fragile girl she had an encounter with the night before.

Former gymnast and teenage mum Treesa Reynolds, 19, is off to the Sandcastle Waterpark with her mum Lou and daughter Lulu, looking forward to a sausage and egg McMuffin on the way. Pleasure Beach breathes and exhales the unique sea air, fish and chips, donuts and candyfloss scents of Blackpool, bringing to life everything the town is famous for, portraying the gritty magic and sheer unadulterated fun of the city and its people across a spectrum of sensory experiences and emotions.

Palmer’s readings are accompanied by found sounds and samples – noise and ambience borrowed from Blackpool’s beaches, streets, and ballrooms – and features refrains drawn from Benedict Drew’s Music for Bookshops.

"A book as mind-bending as the town itself" – Jeremy Deller

Helen Palmer is a writer from Blackpool. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) and Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). She is a 2023 Interdisciplinary Resident at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Virginia, USA. She currently lives in Vienna. Pleasure Beach is her first novel.

Published by Prototype, Helen Palmer’s Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West’s saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16th June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as James Joyce’s Ulysses. Serialised in four instalments (to conclude with its publication on June 16th 2023, “Bloomsday”), and read by the author, Pleasure Beach (Cochlearical) was produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham for Resonance Extra as a part of a rolling series of collaborative broadcasts from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio.

Alphonsine Koh is a DJ, producer and artist from Singapore, now based in Germany.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

This instalment contains opportunistic content made during a 'pure volunteering' trespass into an archival recording facility, where a vanishingly rare - possibly unique - acetate record (originally found in a bin) is digitised, cryptically titled Baz Kromagnum. Varying fidelity ensues.

Fittingly, this old record - nominally skiffle - sings of unresponsive culture, failed endeavour, and perseverance, heralding sympathetic elongated remixes, and philosophical enquiry on the nature of experiment, passion, presentation, and pratfall.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

From jet-lagged homesick soundscapes from Thailand, odes to strawberries and our lost seasons to music made out of a toilet plunger and the howls of seals this is a very jam-packed edition of Atmospheric Densities. Featuring new releases by more eaze, Gamardah Fungus and Liew Niyomkarn, a tribute to Ian Rawes in the form of his posthumous release From Dawn til Dust on Persistence of Sound.

We also give a big shout to Phil Maguire's Verz's label as it closes up shop by dipping into the label's final release by David Donohoe and David Lacey, dive into Cath Roberts piece on split via Fractal Meat Cuts. On the Flaming Pines side of things we mark the pending release of Kamran Arashnia's Bounds Elimination and dig a bit deeper into the forthcoming albums by Jonathan Higgins' and RUBBISH MUSIC.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

This mix looks at field recording and drone ambience. All of the artists featured in the mix featured on Sonospace over the last 5 years with one of these pieces. The works come from all around the world. From Taiwan to Ireland and back again.

Monthly excursions into the world of Sonospace - audio archive and publisher involved with the research and documentation of field recording and sound art. Curated and presented by Harry Sumner.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Mark Miller's poem “in search of a name / the torrent of rainwater / down the canyon wall”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

In this extract from the day, an unreleased album sent to us by Neil Luck and Benedict Taylor.

Neil Luck is a composer, performer, and director based in London. His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself.

Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist and composer.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

This episode features music from Torba, Twenty Three Hanging Trees, Chelidon Frame, Pascal Colman & Chase Foley, V-Stok, Menion and Eye Spirit & Matt Finney.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

In this episode, Zu From All Over revisits her teenhood with the best skate-punk, pop-punk, and melodic-hardcore for a chance to learn what all the cool punks were blasting behind the bleachers.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

This episode features music by Olli Aarni, Ora Clementi, Valerio Tricoli, The Transcendence Orchestra and David Behrman.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

Drone Operatør's third session is a wild and interdimensional roller coaster ride through multilayered landscapes of musical styles. Christoff Riedel, a producer/dj from Leipzig and part of platform Cime hits the break after one hour for a little relaxation to admire the scenic view. His guest set ranges from vivid ambient edits to dystopian sound design cuts. #buckleup, Hashtag Kindersekt - cheers!

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

This episode features a special audio collage from the recent Sound Art Brighton: Sound Plotting event, new music from I'm Dr Buoyant, and a selection of tracks from the latest release on the Spirit of Gravity label.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

This episode features new music by Rumore, David Strother, The Corrupting Sea, Christopher Flores, Gestura, Cut, Virus 2020, Ying shui di jiang, Inner Paradise and vÄäristymä .

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

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Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.